COUNCIL TOPICS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 42, 28 July 1939, Page 8

COUNCIL TOPICS

ROAD AT WAIMANA HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES Among minor matters in, the Fin-* ance Committee's minutes dealt with at the monthly meeting of the Wha_ katane County Council on Tuesday It approved the personnel of the local branch of the Crippled Children's Society. The branch consists of the town and county clerks, the district nurse the medical superintendent of the public hospital a nd a hospital board'representative. Funds are avail able and it will be the committee's duty to locate,cripples resident in the district. The council regretted that it was unable to make a donation to the Mutual Help Housing Trust, which seeks to provide living accommoda- 1 tion for indigent women; to the council for the adoption of Chinese chil. <Iren; to the Rahiri Convalescent Home, and to the Auckland Society for Deaf Children. It gave £2 2s to the Whakatanc Surf Life Saving Club towards the erection of a punga fence in front of the club house. WAIMANA ROAD. A letter from the property supervisor, Native Department, notified that the department-had set aside the sum of, £500 for the construction of Waimana 1C 2 the terms of the grant being that tho amount available is used for registered; unemployed labour to be dr&wn from the placement officer at Whakatanc, that the council is to supervise all work, payment to be made direct to the men from the department's office, find that the council is to be respon'ible for all legal costs, fencing and bridge material. The council decided that it be left -o the engineer to confer with Cr Ff. F. Wardlaw and accept the'coalitions.

The provincial secretary of the ■ New Zealand Farmers' Union < who asked whether the county considered that the farmers would gain more by the abolition of heavy traffic fees than they would lose, ay as advised that if the heavy traffic fees were abolished throughout the Whakatane County a,n increase of approximately Id in the general rate would be necessary. The offer of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of an area of three acres fjs n pound site at Galatea at a cost of £20 was accepted. MATATA WATER. The secretary of the Ma,tat a branch of the New Zealand Labour Party was informed that the council has made representations to the Government for a Public Works grant of £1500 a.t £2 for £1 subsidy for the repair and replacement of the Matata water scheme, and that any help the branch could give the council would be appreciated. The counsel to the Counties' Association gaA r e it as his opinion that a,ny person who threw trimmings f>f any hedge or tree or plant on a road was liable for expenses incurred bv a local authority in removing the cubbish. If the throwing of trees and plants Amounted to an obstruction or danger there was a remedy at law. There was no statutory provis'on making it an offence to thrtow plants into a river unless an obstruction was caused or the matter was of an offensive nature. It was reported to the council that the Counties'' Association had framed a remit for consideration at the conference making it illegal 'to throw ragwort plants into rivers or creek-;. 5 Accounts amounting to £4415 ( 9d were passed for payment. t The Works Committee recommend, i r>d that thre« poles on 'the Railway t Road. Ta.neatun side of the combined j bridge be shifted, no. liability as to ± costs to rest with tho council. A >] let'iei- was before it from the telegraph engineer agreeing that tho

poles were but pointing [out that county workmen were pro. g'-'ess : Yc]y widening the stretch road by 'tlie use of the grader, and ns it was considered that their re"ioval was necessitated by ro*v": 'm-•irov-Miients Ihe council should bear 50 per cent of the cost. PU'RCHASE OF WHARi;. T*r> cy;-;:4r>:t e-i'.iiner' rO"')"tcd ";1 I) ' had : n a e '.-it Manawahe n—'d i('••nnnn-qiVi th>t t': ' ■'? bought as p dwelling a-ler. •nan and for J' rt Thornton Hi • iiri{'p r -V] 'f> C,. T, 'd j iier? was no " >Vn " h'.i's, a-ni ha - . ci|«j.go>trvl t'jat h" hrvl,] ho aut'-o rl to for n ca-etdv-r, 11 K * ivn'pl to ..U 1 .!. ! . .*J ■. ' " I I